ID: Drawing of a duck billed platypus underwater, they’re wearing a rainbow coloured t shirt and a pink bum-bag, and saying: “Ally is not something you can self-identify as, it’s a title that you earn. Let your actions speak for themselves!”
Credit: Sophie Labelle
This kind of gatekeeping really pushes away potential allys. Probably not the best kind of rhetoric.
It only pushes away the “potential allies” who are unwilling to do anything to help queer people. Who aren’t allies.